Tough crowd today, isn’t it?
Of course, but that’s real life too.
I think it ended up being a lousy story because of an incomplete or ambiguous ending, but because it’s non-fiction, it reflects real life, which rarely has neat, all-loose-ends-tied-up endings. To this day, I do not know what happened to the fat girl (here, the ending took place in the mid-1980s). She wreaked a great deal of havoc in that grocery store, and so possibly she was put away for a very long time.
I admit it is a lousy story, but given the number of stories I’ve posted here, I’m never sure. Some of the stuff I myself thought was pretty good, the audience yawned; other stuff I thought was lousy, the audience applauded.
It’s a learning process.
And while I’m sorry it ended up a lousy story, I’m not sorry I posted it. freerepublic, after all, offers one an opportunity (for which we’re all grateful) to toss ideas, observations, experiences, out for critical approval or disapproval.